This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 and Red Hat does not plan to fix this issue the currently developed update. Contact your manager or support representative in case you need to escalate this bug.
Given how long this problem has gone unresolved, it's relatively low severity, and the lifecycle stage that RHEL 5 is currently in, the problem reported will not be fixed in RHEL 5. -Lenny.